Brooding, Stark, Cold and Dark: The Beauty of Nordic Cinema
Tom Jolliffe journeys across the cinematic landscape of the Nordic countries…
Every cinematic nation tends to have a particular forte, or a period in time very distinct for creative output that sees them produce work unique to them. Japan had a period of Samurai films and one of ghost stories. Italy have had neo-realism and horror. France have had avant-garde cinema, and also a pretty immense period of extremely cool Gallic infused thrillers. Brits a penchant for gritty crime films, and so on…
In terms of Nordic cinema, each individual nation, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland and Norway certainly have unique eccentricities of their own, but there’s an overriding consistency between much of the best works of each. The region shares much of the same atmosphere and cold winters, so often a backdrop in the films (especially thrillers). Likewise, there’s a distinct leaning to introspective characters and oodles of rep
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The B-Movie Queens
Tom Jolliffe celebrates some of the most popular B-movie queens of the video era onward…
Think of those legendary actresses of the last few decades. Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Scar Jo, to the recent impact of Margot Robbie. Big names, capable of selling a film themselves and a regular big screen fixture.
As someone who grew up in the VHS era, with a huge array of video premiere films to watch, I have become accustomed to the many great female leads who became bankable draws on video. Now some may have started in the video market from the beginning, but others began as a big screen presence before becoming a dependable audience magnet in the straight to video arena. Back on those glorious video store days my eyes would be drawn of course to the latest Dolph Lundgren special, or a whole host of action gods beneath his level like Gary Daniels et al. Likewise though, there were so many B-Movie Queens that caught my eye, and continue(d) to throughout the current